This collection contains records pertaining from at least 6 different fonds in the State Archive of the Zaporozhe Region. They include the Berdyansk Uezd Steppe Forestry Department (Fond 250), the Alexandrovsk Uezd Land Survey Commission (Fond 230), the Melitopol Uezd Statistical Bureau (Fond 255), the Berdyansk Uezd Land Survey Office (Found 263), the A.A. Koop Agricultural Equipment and Machinery Factory (Fond 158) and the Zaporozhe Okrug Executive Committee (Fond 316). The materials focus roughly on four themes – forestry, description of land and estate possessions, business correspondence and emigration.
The fonds contains bulletins (1960-2001), annual reports (1972-1993), congregational meeting minutes (1973-1977), church council meeting minutes (1973-1975), programmes (1973-1984), newsletters (1989-1990), a 1990 membership list, and a 1992 directory. The records go back to the beginning of Zion Mennonite Church as independant and separate from the Emmaus Mennonite Church. They document the activities and development of this congregation, its leaders and participants.
Zion Mennonite Church (Swift Current, Saskatchewan)
This fonds consists of newspaper clippings, brief congregational histories, bulletins, annual reports, directories, and other reports which pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Langham, Saskatchewan. It documents the leaders and participants in the congregation. There are newspaper clippings (1980-1984), congregational histories (1960, 1970), bulletins (1958-1997), annual reports (1975-1992), directories (1978-1994), and other reports (1984).